The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-28
The Christmas Editorials.

Nearly every paper in the land contained
Christmas editorial Sunday. In ma
jority OF them, there was the usual talk
about the world being filed with gladnesi,
and the millionaire and pauper, the priest
and convict, infrm and robust, young and
old, experiencing alike the universal thrill
that follows the advent of this joyous sea-
son. This is not to be wondered at, as
Christmas has been coming and going good
many years, and with each recurrence has
been the theme of thousands upon thous-
ands of writers, who have long ago said
about all that can be said about
it. But while very little, perhaps nothing
new can be said, some of the writers
clothe old thoughts in lang uage 50 attract
i've as to make one almost forget that he
has met with them every year since he was
old enough to keep abreast with the topics
of the times; and others have gotten little
out of the beaten track and SKINNED along
its edges with articles On kindred subjects,
which glide on for little while as if de-
tacted from any other line of thought, but
finally flow into the main stream. 1t is a
question if Christmas reflections are not
now than they ever were before At all
events If compiled from the press and put
IN book form, they would make a very
readable volume, and it is strange that i'll
this day of new things some enterprising
publisher has not given to the world such
book,
This year the New York press rather
eclipses that of other cities in its manner of
dealing with the subject, and the Herald
stands in the fore front OF its city contempt
raries, but its right to superiority might be
questioned but for the fact that the Tribune
altogether ignores the season, the Sun drops
into somewhat heavy poetry, and the Eren~
ing Post confines itself to the growth of
Christianity. The Press puts everything it
has to say into a three-lin para
graph, admonishing the people to go
to church and thank God for
Christmas, and then to go over to the East
side and make somebody thank God for
them. The Times has lengthy and learned
dissertation on the origin Of yuletime,
frightened by the single thought that dolls
are given to the children of the sweater sex
because they train them in the care of in
fants against the coming of womanhood.
The World delivers lecture on OVERRIDING
the occasion by giving too many presents,
which custom it denominates a tax upon
thought, time and purse, and the Star and
Graphic plod along IN the old weather
beaten paths. The Philadelphia Public
Ledger devotes three articles to the subject,
each evidently flowing from the kindly heart
of Mr.. Childs, while the Press, of the same
city, enlarges upon the idea that men grow
buster and the pressure of life increases each
year, making the burden of work under
which the world groans wax weightier with
every notch cut by Father Time, and the
span of rest for which Christmas stands
therefore "widens with each return of the
sun from its distant Southern journey"
The Records comments are commonplace.
The Boston papers delve down deep into
VISIONS rich beds, as they always do; too
deep in fact for the balance of mortals to
follow. The Baltimore pape' are polished,
and at the same time sprightly in what they
say, but advance no striking thought. The
Nashville American has perhaps the lengthi-
est article, and it is such an out-and-out se.,-
mon as to create the suspicion that it was
borrowed for the occasion from some